InnerSelf Newsletter
April 26th, 2015 |
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Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your Inner Self. The times they are a'changin is what Bob Dylan sang years ago... and we might change the lyrics now to the times they are a'challengin. This week we look at prioritizing what's important in our life with articles such as The Four Things That Matter Most and Alan Cohen's Remember What’s Important. Since we also have numerous choices as to how to live our day to day life, we may benefit from knowing How to Make Mindfulness a Way of Life. Barbara Berger reminds us that Resisting Unpleasant Emotions Doesn’t Work while Sarah Varcas speaks about taking risks and fulfilling our destiny in Choosing the Cliff Edge. For these and more articles, scroll below. We also welcome (and invite) any feedback... And please let us know if something isn't working, a link is broken, or is missing, etc. To send us your comments, hover over the "This and That" item in every page's top menu, and click on the "Contact Us" button. And of course, any donations are always welcomed and appreciated (and useful). Also please note the Amazon link on the right hand of every page. If you use that link to reach the Amazon website, we receive a commission on any purchase you make. This is a way for you to support InnerSelf, and it not costing you a penny extra. Sounds like a win-win to us :) Please bookmark the link for future use. Here is it as well: Amazon link
Wishing you enjoyable insightful reading, and of course a wonder-full, joy-full, and loving week. Marie T. Russell |
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No matter who you are or how skilled you may be in your occupation, there will be times when the going is hard, and unpleasant circumstances will overtake you. Now, if you yield easily to these obstacles you may as well write yourself off as far as becoming a great success is concerned.
Many people have been shaken awake, forced to confront themselves and their lives, the consequences of choices previously made and the impact of living a half-life in the shadows of possibility for so long. It has been a time of both trauma and ecstasy, challenge and liberation. The initiation into the Aquarian Age has well and truly begun.
The problem that many people have is their misconception of what leads to happiness. They usually point to their successful career, family, and material possessions as evidence of their happiness. But as you’ve probably realized by now, all these things are impermanent and bring only temporary pleasure.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi once advised, “We must become the change we want to see in the world.” Perhaps if we were each to expand forgiveness, gratitude, and love in our own lives, the collective influence of our healthy, loving relationships would reverberate across our generations and into the future.
Life teaches us that we cannot be released from powerful, stressful emotions by resisting, ignoring, or repressing them – no matter how hard we try. In fact, life teaches us just the opposite. We learn from experience that resisting, repressing and ignoring unpleasant emotions just tend to make things worse.
How much more meaningful would our moments with loved ones be if we treated them as if this might be our last time together? We would not squabble over petty issues. We would remember what’s important. A Course in Miracles tells us that the world we see is inside out and upside down.
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